I just created these days a tutorial article including my personal tips on how to win all the medals in the game. Besides the 3 new introduced medals, I managed to acquire all the medals in the game in my 5+ years experience and I shared my thoughts on how to grab them in this very article:

Buy lots of cc in the black market, and then you can win one of the idiotic tournaments the admins organize, and give you demential amounts of resorces.
However, be aware of spend some real cash with your credit card first, or you could be banned for good. If you spend cash in the game, the admins will let you do whatever you like.
That is what killed most communities, and a game which was, once, pretty good.